...The Hawaiian phonemes are listed below. English examples are approximate. The Hawaiian vowels are "pure," i.e., without glides. They are of either short or long duration. The consonants p and k have less aspiration (i.e., they are "harder") than similar English sounds in initial position. (Pairs distinguished b...

...Vowel pronunciation: Ka Papa Puana The (5) Hawaiian vowels are pronounced similar to the following English words. A sounds like U in UMBRELLA E sounds like E in RED I sounds like E in HE O sounds like O in GO U sounds like OO in MOON...

...Lesson 1 - The Alphabet. Pronunciation. Gutteral Break: it alters the meaning. Examples of Vowels forming words -- 7-19 -- Lesson 1 - The Article. Definite and Indefinite. Examples. Syntax -- 20-21 -- Lesson 3 - The Adjective. Classification. Comparison. Adjective as a Noun, and the Noun as an Adjective. Par...

...hat One Says to the Poet on the Subject of Flowers ........60 The Seekers of Lice .....................66 The Drunken Boat......................67 Vowels ..........................71 The Rooks .........................72 Memory..........................73 Teardrop..........................75 The Song of the Highest Tower.................77 Eternity....................

...ed quantity. When the resemblance between two words is discussed one takes into account also the fact whether the first letters (eventually the first vowels) are the same and/or whether the letters in common are in the same order. Then comes the delicate question about spelling and pronunciation. This might raise the question whether the letters « s » and « ç » should be d...

...however what we could in the introduction to remedy this evil, by saying as much as could profitably be said to the native pupil on the sounds of the vowels and consonants. The rest of the the work, and a laborious one it will be found, must be performed by the living teacher, until the pupil is taught to learn his pronunciation from the English Dictionary....

...Chapter 1 Should I learn Hebrew? 5 Chapter 2 The Hebrew AlephBet 15 Chapter 3 The Hebrew Vowels 20 Chapter 4 Guttural and Dagesh letters 25 Chapter 5 Syllables 28 Chapter 6 First Vocabulary, Special vowels את ו ב 31 Chapter 7 First Verse, Structure, and ה prefix 35 Chapter 8 Word Pairs and Perfect 3rd p...

...sed by knowledgeable Hawaiians if three modifications are made in the traditional spelling: a reversed apostrophe for the glottal stop, a macron over vowels that are long and stressed regardless of position in the word, and hyphens or spaces (as in Ka-lihi Uka) separating individual words that make up many of the names. How many place names are there or were there in the H...

... were in the language; and secondly, to express these sounds by the fewest characters. The characters used are the Roman; and the sound given to the vowels are those of the languages of Southern continental Europe rather than those of the English. The materials for the following grammar have been taken almost entirely from native manuscripts or from documents printed fro...

...d‘ is a homophone to the color red. 72 ―Let me start with the vowels. We use the English vowels of: a, e, i, o and u. These each have th... ...lar, yet often the Swedes don‘t understand the Danes. There are different vowels and different intonations. Ojibwe is an ancient Native Ameri...

...ants like ―m‖ or ―n.‖ Lowering the larynx improved the quality of our vowels and made speech easier to understand. 4 Our windpipe opening, ... ...d vowel-related signs from Hebrew and other Semitic systems to create the vowels that made the Greek alphabet the most accurate and unambiguous phon...

...onants like ―m‖ or ―n.‖ Lowering the larynx improved the quality of our vowels and made speech easier to understand. 4 Our windpipe opening, ho... ...d vowel-related signs from Hebrew and other Semitic systems to create the vowels that made the Greek alphabet the most accurate and unambiguous phon...

...," she mumbled inaudibly to herself slurring and babbling the consonants and vowels as if she were now beginning to imitate the language of her son at... ... guarantee what he will say to her at all times but I can guarantee that the vowels and syllables he uses will be benign. They will be creative and n...

...explication of any worth. I am as ignorant as a childe of the phrases and vowels belonging to common things. And therefore have I atte mpted to say ...

...of the four epsilon, upsilon, omicron, omega; the names of the rest, whether vowels or consonants, are made up of other letters which we add to them; ... ...CRATES: Must we not begin in the same way with letters; first separating the vowels, and then the conso nants and mutes (letters which are neither vo... ...ceived dis tinctions of the learned; also the semivowels, which are neither vowels, nor yet mutes; and distinguishing into classes the vowels themsel...

...alone require, “An Essay on Criticism” – Pope 11 Tho’ oft the Ear the open Vowels tire, While Expletives their feeble Aid do join, And ten low Wo...

...he fortifica- tions of consonants by which the Slave language protects its vowels,—probably not to lose them, considering how few there are. The Marqu...

...dred and thirty-two letters, viz., seventy-seven consonants and fifty-five vowels. This is the proportion found in south- ern languages, whilst northe... ...sisting of consonants only, as nrrlls; others, on the other hand, in which vowels predominate, as for instance the fifth, uneeief, or the last but one... ...out of my hands. “This begins to look just like an ancient docu- ment: the vowels and the consonants are grouped together in equal disorder; there are...

...onant? Love’ s Labours Lost Act V, Scene i 51 MOTH: The third of the five vowels, if you repeat them; or the fifth, if I. HOLOFERNES: I will repea...

... Peda. Quis quis, thou Consonant? 1791 Pag. The last of the fiue Vowels if You repeat them, 1792 or the fift if I. 1793 Peda. I ...